 | 1827 - 294 pages
...wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, 606 Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pages
...wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that...unveil'd her peerless light And o'er the dark her silent mantle threw. Milton. Par. Lost. Book IV. v. 605. Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend :... | |
 | First steps - 1828 - 456 pages
...Lucifer, or Phosphorus. ELIZABETH. Then it is Venus that Milton speaks of when he mentions Hesperus : " Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." MOTHER. The light of Venus is of a white colour, and is so strong that she sometimes, it is said, casts... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pages
...wakeful nightingale . She , all night long , her am'rous descant sung . Silence was pleas'd . Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...Rising in clouded majesty , at length , Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light , And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw . 3. When Adam thus to Eve... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...circumstances and gently-working opiates, " He giveth to his beloved tleep" Psa. cxxvii. 2. Hervey. Fair consort, th' hour Of night, and all things now...to rest, Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...'•"'" "c"^ 1 "! itingale . , all night long, her am'rous descant sung. Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament 'With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon , llising in clouded majesty , at length, Apparent queen , unveil d her peerless light, And o'er the... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung : Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that...mantle threw. When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort th? hous Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pages
...wakeful nightingale. She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung; bilence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament . With living sapphires : Hesperus,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 2. When Adam thus to Eve : " Fair consort, th" hour Of night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1829 - 312 pages
...Silence was pleas'd ; now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires. Hesperus, that led The starry hest, rode brightest, till the moon Rising in clouded majesty,...light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. so that water there would be carried off in the shape of steam, for by experiments with the thermometer,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...pursuit of such acquisitions, and discountenance luxury in the enjoyment of them.—Steele. DCCCL. The hour Of Night, and all things now retir'd to rest, Mind us of like repose, since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft... | |
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Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence... 
